HELM WIND

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HELM WIND , a wind that under certain conditions blows over the escarpment of the Pennines, near

Cross

CROSS

Fell

FELL
FELL, JOHN (1625-1686)

from the eastward, when a helm (

helmet

HELMET (from an obsolete diminutive of O. Fr. helme, mod. heaume; the
English
- ENGLISH
word is " helm," as in O. Eng., Dutch and Ger.; all are from the Teutonic
base
- BASE
hal-, pre-Teut. kal-, to cover; cf. Lat. celare, to hide, Eng. "
hell
- HELL (0. Eng. hel, a Teutonic word from a
  root
  - ROOT (late O.E. rot, adopted from Scand., cf. Norw. and Swed. rot, Dan. rod; the true O.E. word was wyrt, plant, represented in Ger. Wurz or Wurzel; the ultimate root is the same in both words, and is seen in Lat. radix)
  - ROOT, ELIHU (1845– )
  meaning " to cover," cf. Ger. Holle, Dutch hel)
," &c.)

)

cloud

CLOUD (from the same
root
- ROOT (late O.E. rot, adopted from Scand., cf. Norw. and Swed. rot, Dan. rod; the true O.E. word was wyrt, plant, represented in Ger. Wurz or Wurzel; the ultimate root is the same in both words, and is seen in Lat. radix)
- ROOT, ELIHU (1845– )
, if not the same word, as " clod," a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages for a mass or lump; it is first applied in the usual sense in the late 13th century; the Anglo-Saxon chid is only used in the sense of " a ma

covers the summit. The helm bar is a

roll

cloud

CLOUD (from the same root, if not the same word, as " clod," a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages for a mass or lump; it is first applied in the usual sense in the late 13th century; the Anglo-Saxon chid is only used in the sense of " a ma

that forms in front of it, to leeward.
See "

Report

REPORT (O.Fr. report or raport, modern rapport, from O.Fr. reporter, mod. rap porter, Lat. reportare, to bring back, in poetical use only, of bringing back an account, news, &c.)

on the Helm Wind Inquiry," by W. Marriott, Quart. Journ. Roy. Met. Soc. xv. 103.

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